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in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...
was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...
is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...
these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (C...
example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...
made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...
effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...
about girls of all ages and their dreams," still manages to send up, "at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of th...
backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...
comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...
by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...
the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...
be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...
the things they see on the television they should simply turn the television off. The author indicates that some people enjoy a so...
an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...
ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...
By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...
solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...
down the street. We needed to talk about stuff that other people are scared to talk about" (Shank, 1996). It wasnt an attempt to b...
to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...
law, or in various school systems around the nation, or on executive boards, decisions are made to censor material. The FCC for ex...
2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...
tolerance, and forgiveness. Indeed, many religions have a history of instilling peace in not-so-peaceful times. Buddhism...
society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...
domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...
take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...
abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...
from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...